Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-COR6419889
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hellesdon Hospital
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 gross per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/07/2024
Employer heading
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Medicines Safety Officer
Band 8a
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.
YOUR APPLICATION
It is important that you complete a formal application form as CV’s alone will not be accepted.
We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].
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Job overview
Are you a highly motivated and experienced pharmacist with a passion for medication safety? Looking for an opportunity to influence patient safety across the system? Do you have the skills to assess and manage risk, initiate and manage change, and provide assurance around the safe use of medicines? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
We are looking for a Medication Safety Officer (MSO) to join our team. This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of our patients.
NSFT Pharmacy covers Norfolk and Suffolk and the successful candidate can be based in either of these counties. We support flexible working.
This post attracts £3K joining in bonus and potential of up to £5K relocation cost (see below for more details).
Main duties of the job
As an MSO, you will:
- Offer a leadership role to the medication safety agenda across the organisation
- Act as an expert specialist medicine safety pharmacist
- Encourage medicines incident reporting and learning
- Manage medicine incident reporting including dissemination of lessons learnt from incident investigations
- Identify medicine safety issues from national guidance and embed into clinical practice
- Act as the organisational link with the MHRA and NHSE to receive essential communications and escalate concerns related to the safe use of medicines,
- Implement local actions to improve medicine safety which align with national safety initiatives, including national patient safety alerts
- Be an active member of the Medicines Optimisation Committee and Trust wide committees to represent safe use of Medicines
- Be an active member of the national medicine safety officer network and any local/regional medicine safety groups
Working for our organisation
Some of the benefits included with this role:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Recruitment Premium and Relocation Cost
This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000 (pro-rata for part time roles). This is a one-off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment. Please note this recruitment premium is for external applicants only.
Relocation cost of up to £5000 is available for an exceptional candidate.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MPharm or equivalent
- GPhC registration as a pharmacist
- Postgraduate diploma qualification
Desirable criteria
- Leadership or Management Qualification
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant hospital experience
- Significant mental health experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of digital risk management systems.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Reasonable confidence and competence in using IT systems (e.g., MS Outlook, Teams, Word, clinical or other IT systems relevant to the role.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
- Knowledge of mental health service, primary and secondary care
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Manka Ramachandran
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603421212
- Additional information
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